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Derek Tarlecki has been named the new president of Simms Fishing by parent company Vista Outdoors, according to news releases this week. You can read more about this here.

Carp fishing is increasingly popular across the country, but it's gaining a cult following in Texas. This story in Texas Monthly by Forrest Wilder is just one of many highlighting the Lone Star State's great carp fishing opportunities. You can read the entire story here.

According to a press release, Fly Fishers International (FFI) has received funding that will allow them to offer two new programs to engage youth and novice anglers alike. “FFI’s role as a the go-to resource for fly fishing education will be further strengthened by the addition of these two new programs,” said Patrick Berry, President and CEO of FFI...

On February 25-26, 2023, the 6th Annual Texas Fly Fishing & Brew Festival will draw anglers from Texas and the Southwest, Colorado, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Florida. Held at the Mesquite Convention Center on the outskirts of Dallas, the Texas Fly & Brew fuses fly fishing and microbrewery beer tasting. Fly fishing manufacturers, lodges...

The EPA blocked the Pebble project by citing a rule under its Clean Water Act that allows the agency to ban the disposal of mining waste in parts of the Bristol Bay watershed. This effectively blocks the mine from ever happening, should the EPA decision hold. The Bristol Bay area is home to the world's largest runs of sockeye salmon, and it supports an...

More than two dozen women participated in the first annual Beyond the Cast Women’s Fly Fishing Symposium at the 2023 Virginia Fly Fishing & Wine Festival. The 22nd annual Virginia Fly & Wine, held at the Farm Bureau Building on the state fairgrounds in Doswell on January 14-15, 2023, played host to the unique Beyond the Cast symposium, which was...

After a rock-throwing spat between a property owner and angler Roger Hill, the Colorado Supreme Court is taking a look at stream access laws in the state. At the crux of Hill's argument is that rivers and streams should be publicly accessible if they were used for public purposes when Colorado became a state. You can read more on this topic from The...

Orvis announced that they'll match all donations up to $10,000 made before the end of the year to the Guide Relief Program (GRP), according to Hatch Magazine. The GRP was started during the pandemic as a way to help guides pay their bills while sidelined from guiding. It has since expanded to also offer mental health services at no cost to guides. You can...

According to an article in Angling Trade, a new survey from Southwick Associates shows that fishing license sales actually declined in 2021 compared to 2020. For all the talk of the pandemic boom in fly fishing, fewer people went fishing altogether in 2021 than in 2020. While there was a decline, however, more licenses were sold in 2021 than before the...

Poaching is often thought of as a big-game crime, but illegally harvesting too many fish also falls under the definition of poaching. Recently, officers with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources busted a group of poachers who illegally harvested more than 460 pounds of fish from the Manistee River. You can read about the bust here.